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Follow on Google News | San Francisco's AfroSolo Celebrates President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Initiative & Black VoicesAfroSolo, serving the San Francisco Bay Area for 20 years, holds news conference 9/5/14 to celebrate Black Voices Performances & Project Empowerment: The Audacity to Succeed, joining in with President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Initiative.
By: AfroSolo (Nonprofit Arts & Community Services Organization) African American Art & Culture Complex 762 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94102 MEDIA ADVISORY Black Voices Performance Series & President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative: Highlights at AfroSolo’s 20th Anniversary News Conference, 10 a.m. Friday, September 5, 2014 at the African American Art & Culture Complex The Healing Power of the Arts is evident as AfroSolo presentsThe Black Voices Performance Series and Project Empowerment: Who: Thomas Robert Simpson, Founder & Artistic Director, AfroSolo, recipient of KPIX Television's Jefferson Award; Supervisor London Breed, San Francisco Board of Supervisors; What: Media Briefing for the 20th Anniversary of AfroSolo demonstrating the healing power of the arts with the Black Voices Performance Series: Our Stories, Our Lives and Project Empowerment: Program B of Black Voices Performance Series gets underway Saturday, September 20th with Lance Burton and his The Irrelevance of Being Relevant, a black man’s experience from Little Rock, Arkansas’ occupation by the 101st Airborne to Haight Asbury San Francisco to surfing the media and technology wave; Tarika Lewis’ My Life as a Black Panther and Kurt (DJ Lamont) Young’s If God Wanted Me to Fly, a story of family legacy and how a pair of his grandfather’ AfroSolo Arts Festival proudly joins President Obama's My Brothers Keeper Initiative by inaugurating Project Empowerment: When: Friday, September 5, 2014, 10:00 a.m. Media Briefing Where: African American Art & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Why: AfroSolo has a twenty-year history of bringing the arts alive with the incredible talent of emerging and established Black entertainers, thinkers, and activists. Recognizing that the Arts brings healing by causing people to think, take action and change because of what they hear and see, the 20th Anniversary is dedicated to giving voice to empowerment through performance and overall community engagement. Media coverage is important as the message of AfroSolo benefits all. The dialogue ensuing from the 20th Anniversary of AfroSolo helps develop stronger community bonds that can help dissipate underlying racial tensions as seen in Ferguson, Mo. ABOUT AFRO SOLO AfroSolo's mission is to nurture, promote, and present African American and African Diasporan art and culture through solo performances and the visual and literary arts. Since 1993, we have provided a forum to give an authentic voice to the diverse experiences of Black people. Through art, we bring people of all ethnicities together to explore and share the human spirit that binds us all. http://www.afrosolo.org. -30- Note to Reporters/Editors: End
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